What's New In Oracle Calendar 10g Rel. 1

New in the Oracle Web Client.

• Search capability has been improved, and the new ÒAdvanced SearchÓ feature provides an even more accurate and specific way of searching for users.
• More details are displayed in the Agenda views, and you can customize the level of detail you want printed and displayed.
• Under Preferences, printouts can now be set to include your entries in a detailed, tabular list.
• You can now choose a default Calendar view under Preferences.
• You can set default start and due times for tasks, under Preferences.
• Various improvements have been made to the Scheduler: Tool tips have been improved, the Scheduler grid now automatically gets populated with the most recent resource search results, user and resource names can be clicked for more information, and time slots can be clicked to see the entries they contain.
• Icons can now be clicked to show more details about entries or to change the reply status for events.
• The Daily List and Daily Planner are now referred to as the ÒList ModeÓ and ÒPlanner ModeÓ of the Daily View.  The same change applies to the Weekly List and Weekly Planner.
• The Date Control Bar now includes a link to todayÕs date.
• Day Events and Daily Notes can span multiple days.
• When you book a resource, you can choose to automatically fill in the ÒLocationÓ field of the meeting with the name of the resource.
• You can create personal notes – information only you or a designate can see – in an entry, or in selected instances of a repeating entry.
• You can attach a file to an instance of a repeating event.

New in ALL Desktop Clients.

• Automatic name completion option when opening agendas and tasks, adding people to entries, or locating a person.
• Ability to create per-instance details for your Agenda entries. **
• Ability to create per-instance personal notes for any Agenda entry.**
• Prompt to switch offline when the Oracle Calendar server is unreachable and prompt to reconnect when the calendar server connection is restored.
• Ability to synchronize your offline password with your online password.
• Ability to have e-mail reminders and notifications sent to an alternate e-mail address.
• Preference to enable or disable pop-up reminders on startup.
• Ability to set your reply for an entry upon creation (including free/busy information).
• Entry owners can see the reply status for external attendees.
• Ability to make tasks untimed by default.
• Ability to print attendance status.
• Ability to add new contacts to your Address Book from attendee names.
• Ability to schedule external attendees in Agenda entries using their e-mail addresses or by selecting them from your Personal Address Book.
• Support for multi-day notes and day events. **
• Ability to search your personal address book in addition to the calendar server when adding users to Agenda entries.

** These features are available only with version 10.1.2 of the Oracle Calendar Server (this upgrade is scheduled to take place on 7/23/06)

Client Coexistence Behavior.

This section describes some known behaviors and workarounds for users who collaborate with different releases of Oracle Calendar Clients.

• Multi-day daily notes and multi-day day events:  Previous releases of the clients display multi-day daily notes and multi-day day events with a duration of one day.  Users who need to know that a daily note or day event lasts longer than one day should use a repeating daily note or repeating day event rather than a multi-day daily note or multi-day day event.
• Per-instance details and per-instance attachments:  Previous releases of the clients only support one set of details and one attachment per meeting.  Per-instance details and per-instance attachments are not visible to users working with previous client releases.  If you want the same details or attachment to be included for all instances of a meeting, use the ÒApply to allÓ button to make sure this is visible to users of previous client releases.

New in Oracle Sync Clients.

Oracle Sync for Macintosh - Palm.

• No new features at this time.

Oracle Sync for Windows – Palm.

• Ability to set details and persona notes on a per-instance basis for repeating events.
• Ability to set the appropriate time zone corresponding to your mobile device from the Synchronization Settings dialog box.
• Ability to include your attendance status in the event title when transferring events from the Oracle Calendar server to your mobile device.
• Ability to include and determine the format of attendee names in the Notes section of an event.
• Ability to include the location in the event title when transferring events from the Oracle Calendar server to your mobile device.
• Ability to set up and submit synchronization log information without user intervention, using the improved log viewer application.
• Ability to support day events that span multiple days.
• Tungsten T3, Tungsten E, Zire 31, Zire 72: Ability to synchronize the following contact information:
  • Birthday
  • Home Address and Other Address
  • Main, Mobile, and Pager phone numbers
  • Web page
• Tungsten T3, Tungsten E, Zire 31, Zire 72 – ability to synchronize due date reminders for tasks.
• Ability to synchronize external user attendees. Important Note: this feature is only supported when transferring events from the Oracle Calendar server to your mobile device, and not the reverse.

Oracle Sync for Windows – PPC.

• Ability to set details and personal notes on a per-instance basis for repeating events.
• Ability to select the appropriate time zone corresponding to your mobile device from the Synchronization Settings dialog box
• Ability to include your attendance status in the event title when transferring events from the Oracle Calendar server to your mobile device.
• Ability to include and determine the format of attendee names in the notes section of an event.
• Abilti8y to set up and submit synchronization log information without user intervention, using the improved log viewer application.
• Ability to support day events that span multiple days.
• Ability to synchronize external user attendees.  Important Note: this feature is only supported when transferring events from the Oracle Calendar server to your mobile device, and not the reverse.

New in Oracle Mobile Data Sync (SyncML).

• Support for per-instance details and personal notes – Oracle Mobile Sync now features the ability to add per-instance meeting details.  When you create a recurring meeting, you can now customize the details per instance, such as a meeting agenda.  You can also now add personal notes to meetings that you do not own, which will be maintained on your device, even when you next synchronize with the Oracle Calendar Server.
• Consistent display of multi-day events across Oracle Calendar clients – Multi-day events schedule din Oracle Connector for Outlook will now display correctly in all Oracle Calendar clients, so that they will not appear to block off time in inviteeÕs agendas.  Note that this feature is based on device capability.

Additional Information.

The Oracle Collaboration Suite release notes are available for download.  Section 5 contains release note information for Oracle Calendar including, but not limited to, system requirements, known issues and limitations, and workarounds.

http://cufs.cit.cornell.edu/corptime/docs/Release_Notes(Sec.5).pdf

Outlook users should read the Release Notes for "New in Outlook Connector", "Limitations and Workarounds", "Known Issues", and "Globalization Issues"

Oracle supplied user documentation is available here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/cs/user_info/eudp/index.static.html

Please send questions and comments to calendar-backline@cornell.edu

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Last updated: July 14, 2006